July, 1920 
and Wright; visitors: Miss Kellogg, Mrs. 
Etcheverry, Mrs. Neugass, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. 
Thomson, Mrs. White, and Mr. Kelly. The 
minutes for the March meeting were read 
and approved and the March report of the 
Southern Division was read. Mr. T. F. M. 
Williamson and Mr. Dwight R. Disney were 
elected to membership, and Mr. W. H. Work- 
man and Harry H. Johnson, elected by the 
Southern Division, were approved. Corre- 
spondence regarding the Seattle meeting was 
read, and a motion was carried to the effect 
that arrangements for the ornithological 
meeting be made by a committee composed 
of members of the Club who will be present 
at the meeting, together with the secretary. 
On motion of Mr. Lastreto a committee was 
appointed to report at the next meeting as 
to what support the club could offer toward 
encouraging the completion of “‘The Birds 
of California’. Messrs. Law, Swarth, and 
Evermann were appointed by the chair. 
The sudden death of Mr. Frank S. Daggett, 
Director of the Museum of History, Science, 
and Art, in Los Angeles, was reported by Mr. 
Swarth, and the following resolutions were 
ordered spread upon the minutes and for- 
warded to the members of Mr. Daggett’s fam- 
ily, on the motion proposed by H. S. Swarth, 
and seconded by Barton W. Evermann. 
In the death of Mr. Frank S. Daggett 
ornithology has lost an enthusiastic votary. 
The Cooper Ornithological Club has lost a 
member who had whole-heartedly aided and 
supported the society by every means in his 
power almost from its inception; who had 
acted as vice-president and as president of 
the Southern Division for many years; and 
who, in thus giving of his time and in many 
other ways, was an important factor in the 
development of the Club. Mr. Daggett’s kind- 
ly personality was such as to have attracted 
to him a circle of friends by whom his loss 
will be keenly felt. His absence leaves a 
noticeable gap in the ranks of the Club. 
Therefore, be it resolved that we, the mem- 
bers of the Cooper Ornithological Club, de- 
plore his death as a loss to ornithology and 
especially so to this Club, and that the con- 
dolences of the Club are hereby extended to 
his bereaved family. 
Reports of recent literature relating to 
Ornithology given by Mr. Storer and Mr. 
Swarth included the Journal of Comparative 
Oology, and Bulletin 794 of the Department 
of Agriculture on the food of water birds. 
The program of the evening consisted of 
a talk by Mr. Tracy I. Storer, entitled “Ob- 
servations on the Birds of the Campus”. Mr. 
Storer brought up to date the observations 
incorporated by Dr. Grinnell in his article 
entitled, “A Second List of the Birds of the 
Berkeley Campus’, adding two winter visit- 
ants and ten transients to the list of 1914 
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and presenting as far as available the aver- 
age of migration dates thus far recorded. 
Adjourned.—AMeELIA S. ALLEN, Secretary. 
May.—The regular meeting of the North- 
ern Division was held at the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology the evening of May 20, 
1920. President Wright was in the chair, 
and thirty-two members and visitors were 
in attendance. Members: Mesdames Aber- 
nathy, Ames, Bamford, Bridges, Burk, Flinn, 
Flynn, Griffin, Grinnell, Schlesinger, and 
Thomson; Messrs. Cooper, Dixon, Emerson, 
Evermann, Grinnell, Loomis, McLean, Swarth 
and Wheeler. Visitors were: Mesdames 
Lueddemann, Potter, Roe, Thomson, Van 
Gaasbeck, Wheeler and Wintermute; Messrs. 
Abernathy, Bridges, Cheney, Elmore and 
Schlesinger. 
The minutes of the April meeting of the 
Northern Division were read and approved. 
One new member was elected, Mrs. Mervyn 
Neugass. One name was proposed for elec- 
tion, Claude Gignoux, 73 Tunnel Road, 
Berkeley. 
Business finished, the rest of the evening 
was devoted to “reports of the season’, given 
by several of the members. Dr. Grinnell told 
of bird life as observed by him in April at 
various points in the Mojave Desert and 
Death Valley. He was followed by Dr. Ev- 
ermann, with an account of the fluctuating 
fortunes of a Tri-colored Blackbird colony, 
by Mr. Dixon, on some birds of San Clemente 
Island, by Mr. Emerson, on bird life past and 
present at Hayward, and by Mr. Wheeler, on 
birds he had just seen on the desert of 
southern Arizona. The discussion then be- 
came general, and minor items of interest 
were contributed by many of those present. 
Adjourned.—H. S. SwartH, Secretary, pro 
tem. 
JUNE—The regular meeting of the North- 
ern Division was held at the Museum of 
Vertebrate Zoology the evening of June 17. 
In the absence of president and vice-presi- 
dent, Mr. Lastreto acted as presiding offi- 
cer. Thirty-nine members and visitors were 
present as follows: Members: Mesdames 
Ayer, Blake, Bridges, Grinnell, Kelly, Kibbe, 
Meade, Neugass, Newhall, Roe, Schlesinger, 
Margaret W. Wythe; Messrs. Bassett, Bell, 
Carriger, Dixon, Emerson, Grinnell, Hunt, 
Lastreto, McLean, Ray, Swarth. Visitors: 
Mesdames Bassett, Cheney, Clark, Dixon, 
Grant, Hornig, Charlotte Nash, Hester Nash, 
Alice B. Wythe; Messrs. Blake, Bridges, 
Cheney, Clark, Elmore, Kelly, Roe. 
The minutes of the May meeting were 
